People, not computers, produce the real AI threat

Published June 10, 2024 1:25pm ET



Despite the deluge of sensationalist headlines, it is unlikely you will die in an AI robot apocalypse. Death by a thousand e-papercuts, though, is not out of the question.

AI is not exactly new. If you define it simply as any heuristic algorithm that does a task normally (or previously) done by humans, AI dates back to at least the 1970s.

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